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Does Foreign Exchange Intervention Signal Future Monetary Policy? / Graciela Kaminsky, Karen K. Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaminsky, Graciela.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w4298.
- NBER working paper series no. w4298
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1993.
- Summary:
- A frequently cited explanation for why sterilized interventions may affect exchange rates is that these interventions signal central banks' future monetary policy intentions. This explanation presumes that central banks in fact back up interventions with subsequent changes in monetary policy. We empirically examine this hypothesis using data on market observations of U.S. intervention together with monetary policy variables, and exchange rates. We strongly reject the hypothesis that interventions convey no signal. However, we also find that in some episodes, intervention signaled changes in monetary policy in the opposite direction of the conventional signaling story. This finding can explain why in some periods exchange rates moved in the opposite direction of that suggested by intervention.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 1993.
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